Study Definition and 1000 Threads

These exams are merely help for studying for the final in this class. Completing them will not give me any credit whatsoever or affect my grade in the course. The only problem is that our instructor did not give us answers to the tests so we have no idea whether or not we worked the problem...

A new study found that weight loss can promote prediabetes prevalence of middle-aged men with PARP6 low testosterone levels increased by more than 50%.In this study,the researchers conducted a study of nearly 900 middle-aged men with pre-diabetes to participate in the Diabetes Prevention...

Due to concerns with graduate schools, I'm aiming for a high (3.8+) GPA. I understand that it depends on the person, the school, and the class, but approximately how much do you guys with high GPAs study for a given amount of credit hours for A: a pre-req science class B: an engineering class C...

hey guys! i got accepted for a Bachelor's programm in Physics.. it's an English language program in a non-English speaking country (Germany). This program is not accredited (neither internationally, nor inside the country... I'm not sure if it makes any difference.. ) I applied for this...

I'm a college student and I'm taking 12 units of math now. I'm having quite a hard time on some topics so I really want to know how should I study for these math topics. Can you also give some other references that I can use? (like the MIT Courseware, Harvard Online Courses, etc.)Here are the...

Hi everyone I just finished my first year of electrical engineering. I am doing quite a few of self study for coming Calculus II and III, diff. equations, physics, and computer programming classes. I have all the resources I need for those. However, I want to start studying the basics of...

Hi, I'm sure everyone has came along some lengthy proofs/arguments that takes quite a while to go through , and might get too overwhelmed at some point. It seems wise to take a study break, but that sometimes seems to make situations even worse since you might lose your track of thought...

Hm..., my knowledge is limited within this area. Are these genes certainly linked to intelligence? Not too long ago I was reading some literature explaining that no single gene (at the time) was a gene that determined intelligence, so this leads me to believe this research is more simplified and...

Hey everybody, I'm a little embarrassed to be asking this question as I feel it is extremely easy, but I will do so anyway. I'm self studying some algorithms, and the book that I'm using claims that a n^2 + b n + c \in \Omega(n^2) Of course, this is equivalent to saying that there...

Hi everybody, I've been out of school for 4 years and I'd like to learn some physics. I'll give a summary of my background and I'd like suggestions as to what I should study and in what order. There's an abundance of resources that can be found through Google, but it's hard to decide what is...

Tomorrow I'm taking a certification exam to become a college math tutor and I have to take a proficiency test in pre calculus. A lot of the stuff I don't remember because I haven't used it in a while. Anyone got some good online resources. I studied before but I just realized yesterday after not...

Hello Everyone! I have a problem I am solving through a self study project from Lowell Brown's book entitled: Quantum Field Theory". It is a math question (basically) on recursion relations. Homework Statement The variational definition gives us the relation: det[1-λK] = exp{tr...

I have a few questions for those of you that have enrolled in or completed graduate school: 1. When during your college career did you know what area of Physics you wanted to focus on? 2. Did you do any research in that area before graduate school? 3. How much did you know about that...

Hi there. My title sums up the majority of my question, pretty much I'm looking for a good textbook that will either help me understand the basics of calculus, or put me on a path to do so. I would prefer that the book can be bought through an online retailer and -of course- not cost an extreme...

I was just wondering if anyone has ever tried this? Anyway, Over the summer, I'm taking calculus 2, multi variable calculus and university physics. This fall I will be in modern physics, university physics 2, diff equations and chemistry. I was just wondering if anyone would like to...

I am a graduate student preparing for my comperhensive exam, and do not have a very strong background in QM. Which method should I use? which book takes me to the point of getting 60% out of exam. The material is advanced undergraduate QM.

I'm starting a 7 week calc I course exactly 2 weeks from today. We meet 8 hours a week, so I know I'll need to study a lot, but I'm not sure how to study. In high school, I had a difficult time with calculus, often because I didn't understand it in detail, and sometimes because I froze up on...

Hi, I would like to know how to treat a vector valued function when I want to know where are minima, maxima and saddle points. Thanks in advance!

I recently got back my first Calculus I exam in college, and I received a B. To study, I watched Patrick JMT, read over my notes, and did a few practice problems. When I got to the exam, I found it hard to recall the steps that I practiced for working out problems, but I remembered most later...

Well, now that Summer has arrived, I've found myself re-examining previously learned material, and of course new things as well. But I think my study habits may need adjusting, the evidence of this being that I am experiencing an inordinate amount of stress. What I have been doing was trying to...

Yet another "should I study physics?", thread Hello folks, First, since this is my first post on the forums, a short introduction. I'm a 23 year old student (pharmacy - 5 years to go!) living in the Netherlands. As far as I can remember I have been fascinated by astronomy & physics...

I am being offered subsidised language courses with my BEng Mechanical Engineering including a free first year, and need to decide soon what language I want to study. I can choose from French, Spanish, German, Arabic and Mandarin Chinese. I am female and live in the UK, though I am very...

I am currently majoring in Applied Physics and have an interest in electronic devices and material properties. I am applying to grad school in the fall and having trouble deciding between Material Science, Physics, and EE. I am currently leaning towards EE but was wondering if anyone here had...

I'm looking for some study materials regarding Closed time-like curves (CTCs). Be it a book, paper or anything other. It is highly accepted, but I'm particularly looking for a book that includes it and similar topics.

It is one month into my summer vacation and the only task I have right now is to prepare for the General GRE that is coming up pretty soon. However, I still try to read a bit of math everyday. I feel extremely guilty if I ever get the thought of not doing math for just one day. I think that...

I have taken Calc 1 (computational) and Discrete Math (low-rigor proofs), and am currently taking Calc 2 (calc is a 2 semester course at my school), in the Fall I will take Vector Cal (mostly computational), probability (mostly computational), and LA (supposed to transition students to the rigor...

Thought you might get a kick out of this. Turns out that listening to the Beatles "When I'm 64" actually makes you younger! I am something of a critic of published studies showing spurious correlations (i.e. ones which are actually meaningless). These are cited to justify medical procedures...

For a postgraduate study in physics which university is better: Nottingham or Sussex?Sussex is not a Russel group university ,but in the last rankings is in the top 50 of the world. On the other hand Nottingham is an older university+ a russel group university. So i would like to hear opinions...

Hi, I've completed a bachelor in computer engineering (software development). Working as software developer for almost 3 years now. Am 27. I don't hate the software development but it's wearing me out. It's also that I'm always in the same office, looking at code behind pc. I feel it's not...

I'm not quite sure if my question belongs to this section or not, so I hope I would be posting it in the right place. Anyway, I have troubles understanding Rudin's principals of mathematical analysis. To me, everything he says, is absurd. I can't understand what he says, neither do I want to...

I am looking for an easy to read book on immunology that focuses on how diseases occur, progress, and cause changes at the cellular level in human body. The book will be ideal if it has a lot of pictures of affected human organs, graphs (or some representation of data in clinic), identification...

I'm taking my first upper tier physics class in fall 2012 Analytical Mechanics. I know that the calculus of variation is fundamental to understanding the Lagrangian and because this will be the only classical mechanics class I will take in my undergrad I want to understand it well. Do you think...

I'm going to be an undergraduate at UVA Engineering starting next year. Right now, I don't think I'll want to end up living as an engineer. I think I want to go into law, business, finance, or something in one of those general areas. I'm fairly set on doing a double major in Physics (<3...

Hi, I'm new to the forums. I hear this is a helpful site with knowledgeable people who know what they're talking about. I was wondering if you could answer a couple of questions for me. I am in high-school and soon attending college in a year, I plan on going into Medicine but I want to be...

Hey everybody! I will be attending Notre Dame this following fall, and I am hoping to major in physics, as well as research (I haven't really decided what I will to focus on, esp. at the graduate level, but I hope I can figure that out later on down the road). Over the summer, I want to...

Hi, I am from Spain. I have dropped out from a university (2 years of medicine in Spain without any degree) and now after 4 years I would like to study a completely different subject and that's physics (or theoretical physics if possible) in the United States. Is this possible or I have no...

I am a non-traditional student (36 w/ a business degree after leaving a CHemE program when in school the first time). The last 12 years of my life, I have worked in the application of industrial coatings' to steel . I still work in the field, and will continue to. Now, I work in outside sales...

We're having a case study project in our intro physics class. We can choose from the ff. topics: kinematics, Newton's laws, momentum, energy, gravitation, SHO, waves, and fluid mech. We are to investigate a case of physical phenomena which exhibits the theories we have studied in class. This...

Hi all, Is differential equation a prerequisite to study real analysis (in context of baby Rudin)? And does it have any use in measure theory or Stochastic Calculus? Thanks in advance.

Hi all, Is differential equation a prerequisite to study real analysis (in context of baby Rudin)? And does it have any use in measure theory or Stochastic Calculus? Thanks in advance.

I'm a chemistry major with an emphasis on the biochem side of things. I'm currently finishing up Calc 3 and the basic electricity and magnetism portion of my physics curriculum, and quite frankly, physics is just about the coolest thing ever. I still love chemistry. But physics delves into...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone had any good ideas on a topic or course that I could take next Fall as an independent study? I will be taking Number Theory this summer and Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra and either Numerical Analysis or Complex Analysis next Fall.I spoke to one of my...

Has anyone heard of an independent study for freshman/sophomore students for physics/engineering majors? What are your perspectives on it? Is it too early? Or is it a good to have? I ask because I spoke to one of the faculty members about it-- and he replied that it is too early. He wasn't...

Hello, I'm a CS major. What should I study as a minor or maybe major to study Artificial Intelligence?

I'm a High School student in NZ, and I am going to the local university next year. However I don't know what subject should I choose, I perfer pure mathematics, although engineering or computer programming may have much higher incomes so I am considering them. I am very good at mathematics (I...

Hi everyone, would appreciate a bit of advice here. I did Finance in college, however I feel that the classes weren't quantitative enough, only having Business calculus and very basic statistics. So now I am self studying maths again. What I did was take an online course in calculus which...

Hello, I am interested in finding out what are the primary fields of study for a degree in Mechanical Engineering. I also want to know how these fields of study fit together. If anyone can help, please contact me. Thank you.

Hello mates, anyone here ever studied or used the method of rapid cooling called "Splat Cooling" ? I will use this method for the processing of two types of alloys. Ti-Fe and Ti-Fe-Sn. Then I will compare its phases, microstructure, etc and properties like nanohardness. I would really...

I was just curious if anyone had any information on how 'the greats' went about studying. People such as Feynman, Einstein, etc. studied. Of course omit the scientists who mastered analysis by the age of 5 like Neumann and Landau.

I was experimenting with some physics and the mathematics started to get a bit tougher than what I'm used to. I had a professor who looked at what I'm doing, offered to guide me, and told me to do some research on the variational principle. At the moment, I am in Calculus II. I did a couple...